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The United Nations wants to know what country works best with the natural world. That’s tough to measure.

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Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

The biotech revolution spent decades trying to harness power for medicine. The next chapter is harnessing it for everything ...

Researchers say that while territorial disputes between animal groups are well known, wars within such groups are extremely ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

SAN DIEGO — This filmmaking team had a couple of questions. One was about the research focused on the amount of time American ...